Letter from Thomas Edwin Ricks, 6 June 1888
Rexburg, Bingham Co., Idaho,
President Wilford Woodruff.
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dear Brother
In reply to your esteemed favor of
the 9th ultimo regarding the educational Interests
of the Bannock Stake. We would respectfully
represent that according to our Sunday
School report presented for the half year ending
June 30th 1887, there were enrolled 551 Male
Pupils and 505 Female Pupils making a
Total of 1056 Pupils, which without doubt
has greatly increased since; this being the
representation of 21 Wards and Branches
who are to a greater or less extent prohibited
from receiving the benefits of the appropriation
made from the Territory because of our
Faith; and as the majority of the Saints
would like to have schools established, taught by
men of our Faith, who wcould defuse the prin-
ciples of the Gospel more fully, into the minds
of their Children, and we think that
